The trouble was, they left her too much alone...

It's been a minute since I posted, but, you know, Real Life and all that.

I'm feeling pretty damn good right now. I wrote something not too long ago, just for kicks, and some people are reading it and really seem to dig it. it's a pretty awesome feeling when you try something for the first time and get a lot of positive feedback out of it. So, huzzah for me.

My oldest pal Jen is coming into town from Nebraska, and Its been far too long since I've seen her. She's in my wedding, so this is a excellent thing as it will actually give me time to talk to her about it and catch up and blah blah blah.

I'm steadily making my house into what I want it to be--Justin and I do a little at a time, a bedroom set here, a piece of art there, and it's all coming together rather nicely. We went to Michaels to have some really great drawings framed and discovered that our pictures, of which there were four, would cost a lovely $133 each to frame. We quickly said 'fuck that noise' and went and bought four lovely frames for the sum of like, $70, and framed them ourselves. They look awesome and we felt proud for being both crafty and thrifty. My mam came to visit and had a good time until some psychopath went speeding down our road and hit her car, which was parked in front of our house. That was a bummer, so I took her out where we imbibed lots of alcohol, and forgot our troubles for a minute or two.

Overall, things are looking up--not that they were ever really shitty or anything, it's just that when someone asks me how things are and I reply with, 'can't complain', I really can't this time. It's nice.

Thank the Gods, finally got my HP Career Fair Fic in--and like 8 days late as well. I love extensions. I love lovely mods that give extensions to hapless first-timers like myself. I just hope my person likes their story.I feel good about it. Not great, but good. I don't think I'd ever feel great about something I'd written. In any case, it's done!

I've been gone for a minute because I just got back from four days of Dragon*Con and every minute of it was awesome. Yes, even waiting in the three hour line for the Venture Bros panel and the Patrick Stewart Panel. It was all worth it. Edward James Olmos couldn't make it to the BSg panel, but Colonel Tigh totally called him up, put him on speaker and we all got to say hello. It was geekiness at its best, and I can't wait to do it all again next year. Pictures soon!

Dragon*Con


So I'm pretty stoked about Dragon*Con coming up; serious talk. It still blows my tiny mind that such an awesomely big and wonderful con, covering pretty much every genre and subject I adore, is pretty much in my backyard. People come from all over to be a part of this, and alls I gotta do is take the train. It's indeed a blessing. Last year I only got to go one day, since I was on a cruise. I had so much fun just that ONE day, I knew when I did it again I'd have to do it big. So, this year, I'm going all four days, I will wait in what promises to be a disgustingly long line to get my badge, I will dress up, and will listen to science track panels, scifi panels, and fantasy panels. and I will squeal when I spot William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy. Not to mention Gaeta, Ianto Jones, and Admiral Adama. Also Ben Browder. Also---Jean Luc Picard. Also---well pretty much everyone they've got lined up this year.

My mom laughed when I expressed my joy over her getting my ticket for me over the phone, but she also understands, being a loyal fan of the scifi/syfy channel herself.

Plus my first best friend EVER will be there as well, and we'll get to see each other again for the first time in Lord knows how many years--17 or so, I think. In any case, tons of fun. I went to the HP Yule Ball last year with the main squeeze and he actually had a good time. It was an awesome people watching activity, and there was a pretty ferocious ol' Voldemort there. This year, it'll be all of that but TIMES 4!


Freakin' just. Good times.

While I am well pleased with Clementine The Green Lappy, I am steady not impressed with my inability to put the songs from my ipod onto my new itunes. Why can't I just put my songs in the library? In any case, if anyone has any ideas on how I can make this happen, I'd be greatly pleased.

I'ma be 25 in a few days! I'm pretty excited, I'm not gonna lie--and mostly because of the presents. Not gonna lie about that either. My main squeeze bought me a new Lappy, one of those little Dell 1545 things, in a delightfully spring-like Jade Green. My pop is sending me a package which will no doubt contain something expensive, and my mom's just bought my ticket to DragonCon. I am a wee bit spoiled, I think. Years and Years of this have led to conversations like this between myself and others:

D(me) and J(main squeeze) are just about finished customizing the new laptop D will receive for her birthday:

J: (looking over list of customized things) So yeah, we added pretty much everything you wanted, you got your web cam, you can play Sims 3 on it, Wireless router-- a pretty swell little lappy, I think. Okay, I'm pushing the button--oh, and it's officially yours! Estimated Delivery Date, August 18th. Huzzah!

D:....

J: What's wrong, babe?

D:...That's not my birthday.

J: Sweetheart, you're getting a new lappy, and it's only a few days after--

D:....

J: (resigned) I'll just run out and get you something else then, shall I?

D: (beams) aw, baby, you don't have to do that...butreallyyoudo.


Not to mention the fact that this year, I sent out my birthday list (That's not the weird part, I do that every year), but I had to send out a revised birthday list for my friends, and it began with the sentence, "Look, I've had some complaints about this year's wish list, so this is the one for all you poor friends. Now you have no excuse."

I have no idea how my friends and family put up with me. They do though, because I'm equal parts extremely blessed and made of awesome.


Hooray for birthdays!

So this is the first fic I've attempted to write in about...ten years, I think, but I looked at all the awesome prompts and some were just calling my name so I figured I'd give it a shot. Wish me luck, and yes, I WILL be begging for help soon. :-)




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hd_career_fair PROMPTING NOW IS OPEN!!!

Look, I swear to Cthulu that I loathe Twilight. I fought my way through the book, taking three weeks to read it because I kept flinging it across the room and screaming, "Is this shit for real?" I'd then have to go read something else, give the book hateful looks from it's place on the floor in my bedroom and rant about how horrid it was to anyone who would listen. But listen. For some reason, I saw the movie, and had a really good time. I will admit here, and only here that I saw it more than once, and loved it every time I watched it. So now I hold these two conflicting ideas in my head about Twilight, and I fell in love with the online community--well, not the whole community--more like the Growing Up Cullen sort of  stuff --not the crazy Twihards, and Twimoms or whatever the hell they're called--IN ANY CASE, I'm babbling about all this because I'm watching the MTV Movie Awards and they played a clip from New Moon.

Holy Shit.

I embarassed the hell out of myself by screaming and biting a couch cushion. Guys. Guys. I haven't even read the book--I refuse to read anymore of them, but...oh holy crap. It's like everything rational in me shut down and that tiny part that goes batshit for sparkly vampires reared her head and just took the eff over.

Someone must save me from myself.

i'llprobablygoseeitwhenitcomesout.I'mjustsaying.Probablyopeningnight,ohgodsomeonesaveme.


Update: Twilight just won best movie award. Sweet baby Jesus.

Yesterday I woke up from a dream where Neil Gaiman inadvertently set a cadre of supervillains loose at my high school. I was charged with the two-tiered task of saving the rest of my classmates, and stopping school administration from badmouthing Mr. Gaiman about the somewhat unfortunate events that had occurred while he was there. Not to mention the guest appearance by Captain America and trying to figure out whether or not we were still going to have Q&A Time with Neil when all of the fighting was done. So many questions I had!

I went and saw Termintator: Salvation at a midnight screening, something I haven't done since Lord of the Rings, and I had a lot of fun. I'm am officially all about some Sam Worthington, and can't wait to see James Cameron's Avatar now,  whenever that's supposed to come out. Still, I felt the movie itself was somewhat lacking. I dunno,--I mean I enjoyed it, but, I go into pretty much every highly anticipated flick thinking it's going to be my favorite, and as the movie progresses I deduct points. I found myself deducting a few points, but I still had a good time. Know what still in the top spot for me though? Star Trek. It's gonna take a movie of badass, epic proportions to knock it off it's perch, but who knows? There's stil time.

While I'm waiting... seperis had this to say about the relationship between Kirk and Spock in the reboot: This is two people who can compare and contrast their juvenile arrest records. This is two people who already have a habit of fighting personally and escalate each other to violence. Their intial reactions to being challenged by each other is already set in the habit of going for the throat first. It's like they were looking all their lives for the one person they can't break, and lookie here, there you go. Jim Kirk, who doesn't know how to lose, and Spock, who burns down the village and salts the earth when he goes to war. They are going to have some epic fights, and some epic angry sex.

I wholeheartedly agree, and cannot wait. Can anybody point me in the direction of some kickass reboot Spock/kirk fic yet?

In other news, this whole 'getting married' thing is just too much. My bridesmaids are killing me. I know they're meant to mean well and be sort of a support and everything, but no one told me I was getting like 5 additional mothers. You know what the problem is? i'm letting them get too involved, I think. I've tried like 17 different kinds of dresses on these broads, of several different colors, and I just keep getting emails and texts like about how fat they look in one style or how washed out one color makes them. At this point, I'm this close to sending out an email saying, "Attention, bitches in my wedding. You will wear whatever unholy nightmare I unleash upon you and you will try your damndest to look pleased and happy whilst wearing it. That is all." I think that would solve a majority of my problems, don't you?

So yeah. A lot of stuff going on as of late. I'm in the final stages of buying a home-I've gone through the appraisal, the inspection, the earnest money, blah, blah, blah--it costs, but I am assured by those around me that it pays off in the end or somesuch pish. The thing that made this whole home-ownership adventure a little more interesting was the idea of the first-time home owner's tax credit thing people who buy their homes between April 2008 and July 1, 2009 are meant to get. First I heard it was somewhere in the neighborhood of $8000 and I'm thinking, 'sweet! I can use it to get good stuff and not have a house filled with shoddy apartment furniture! Or rather, not just shoddy apartment furniture'. Then I actually read up on it a bit and it turns out you have to pay it back over a 15 year period, and there's all this tax jargon involved, and I'm really just not feeling it. You know what would be awesome? If it was like those crazy stimulus checks we got back in 2008 where money just sort of showed up in your bank account. That was nice. I think that this would all be okay, that I would read all the tax jargon and file all the paperwork to get it if on top the whole house thing I didn't have a flipping wedding to plan. Gotta tell ya, feeling a wee bit overwhelmed here. I'm managing though, with the help of a few bad-ass fics and general squeeing over Star Trek. Good Times.

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is one of those silver linings in the cloudy mess that is my inability to organize or multitask.

“I think what would disturb me the most is that after you peel away the surface layer of: ‘I’m so awesome! I’m so awesome! Ow! I just got punched in the face! Hey! Look! Boobs! I’m so awesome! I’m so awesome! Ow! I just got punched in the face.’ that I would just be staring at a vast black hole of nothingness.”

Just. Good, good times. No strings, just cracking up at work and making people stare. Oh Bones, you so crazy.

I saw Star Trek a good three weeks before it came out, and lemme tell ya, it was excruciating enjoying a movie that much and not being able to babble about it. Especially this:

From Kirk and Spock

Because that, my friend, is what my best dreams are made of. Anyway, enough rambling, I've got to get back to pretending to work.